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David Hilbert & Rabindranath Tagore

Did David Hilbert and Rabindranath Tagore live at the same time?

Yes. David Hilbert and Rabindranath Tagore lived at the same time for 79 years, from 1862 to 1941.[1][2][3][4]

David Hilbert · Rabindranath Tagore · Born in 1862 · Born in 1861

David Hilbert
David Hilbert
1862–1943
Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941
Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
18611943
David Hilbert
Rabindranath Tagore
David Hilbert
Science & Invention
Born in Znamensk
Died in Göttingen
Rabindranath Tagore
Literature
Born in Kolkata
Died in Kolkata

World Events During Their Overlap

1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States
1869 Suez Canal opens
1871 Unification of Germany
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage
1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight
1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
1914 World War I begins
1917 Russian Revolution
1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins
1919 Treaty of Versailles signed
1920 League of Nations established
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
1939 World War II begins
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

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Sources

  1. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  2. David Hilbert (Q41585) — Wikidata
  3. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  4. Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) — Wikidata